Sinister Spotlight: The Unknown with Vicar of VHS

Time to climb into Stephen's rickety old jalopy, kiddies, because we're heading into town for a matinee showing at the local nickelodeon. Bring along as many candied bats and blood slushies as you please. Today we're going to be taking in the beauty and strangeness that only SILENT CINEMA can offer us in all of its crackling, dream-like wonder.

We have an extra special guest with us today riding shotgun; it's none other than one half of the insane duo that resides at the weird and wonderfully fun blog Mad Mad Mad Mad Movies, and that's the Vicar of VHS his ownself! The good vicar has kindly taken pause from whipping the scantily-clad vampires that tend his private gardens to discuss today's mega-feature with us: the penultimate Tod Browning/Lon Chaney pairing, The Unknown!

See! The Man of a Thousand Faces! Hear! The macabre melodrama that plays out like an insane pipe organ! Fear! The two-thumbed, knife-wielding toes of the lovestruck Alonzo the Armless in this, the latest episode of Sinister Spotlight! Come one, come all...

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